Or as they call it in France, Le Porn

You can probably hear the motorbike they use to run the lure. Some clever cookie has mounted a motorbike on a stand and replaced the back tyre with a pulley. The pulley drags the lure around the course and you adjust the speed by “riding” the motorbike.

Other clubs use an electric one, but they tend to overheat too quickly and run out of battery before the day is done. Its a fair load dragging a bit of rope around a ~500M loop via a heap of pulleys in the ground. The noise of the motorbike also gets the puppies more excited than the quiet “zzz zzz” of the electric one.

“Oh man, I wish I could get a third day of updates from the lure coursing event”, sighed pretty much every member of the /c/Brisbane Lamington community.

“Boy, do I have good news for you!” declared the most handsome, charismatic, and humble member of aussie.zone. “Here’s not just a photo, but a video! With sound!”

https://i.imgur.com/ThYe0Xc.mp4

ALMOST beanie weather!

Yesterday was lure coursing day, so here are some photos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBYP6RjgpzU

Good memory!

Sad fact: Half the puppies in that video are no longer with us :(

Puppy lure coursing day! Puppies chasing plastic bags at great speed, such fun

CB radios often had a “PA” switch that sent your microphone audio to a loudspeaker under the hood

We used to roll those back in the day. A friend gave my very drunk self a lift home one evening and I used it to give commentary to a group of revellers on the side of the road… who threw a beer bottle at us, and then chased the car which luckily didn’t get stopped at the traffic light nearby.

Good times.

We’re in Greenbank, on the glorious southside of Brisbane. Its kinda like Browns Plains, but with less property density. Still plenty of density in the locals, present company included.

TSLA shares down near 15% off the back off Trump and Musk having their little fisticuffs… which I am 90% sure if just part of a con to manipulate markets to make themselves richer.

Do I get on board the meme stock? It always bounces straight back to stupid heights for no reason so seems like its a sure thing

You’re a whimp, Wilson!

Got down to 5.8C at our joint this morning, so we’re getting there. I think the lowest we’ve ever seen was -1.5C… and the highest was like 43C I think? The temp swings on a bigger pendulum the further from the ocean you are and I cant even see water from my place.

Fair chilly this morning, almost considered a beanie! That is a joke. Please laugh.

Got down to 6.1 this morning which is definitely starting to approach the point where I swap from polo to long sleeves though.

Also I’ve been getting emails for a bloke called Rueben in the US for years. I’m guessing he set up his email on his credit card incorrectly at some point, and any email I’ve sent back saying “err wrong person yo” get ignored so I’m kinda just along for the ride at the minute. Since 2018’ish I’ve been getting monthly updates - congrats on making payment, heres a credit increase, your bill is due, thanks for payment… etc etc. In the last couple of months they’ve turned in to missed payments, offers of reduced settlement, threats of legal action… etc etc. I hope he’s ok.

Please sir, my son… he is very sick. He has a lackofmoneyitus, please save him.

Side note: My folks owned a house on Russell Island for many years. I think they half thought they’d enjoy it as a retirement location, but the constant maintenance cost and tenants trashing the place put them off a bit. Sold it many years ago (… and donated the money to an animal charity, RIP my inheritance).

Never, so far.

Honestly don’t understand the “everything will kill you” meme. In the US there are animals that can literally hunt and kill you, whereas all we have is snakes that might bite you if you happen to walk on it. That’s about it. No snake is getting a whiff of you camping and coming to try and eat you.

https://biomedicalsciences.unimelb.edu.au/departments/department-of-biochemistry-and-pharmacology/engage/avru/research/avip

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_attacks_in_Australia

I’m more at risk of being in a car crash and dying on the way to work than I am at getting nope-roped in my sleep.

Trump

Guns

Trump supporters with guns

I was trying to work in a bit of Bortposting with a car hole reference but I ran out of puff before I finished it. It’s been a long day.

Crikey, a Jag! 😲

Well la de dah Mr Frenchman

Just change “www.reddit.com” to “old.reddit.com” (literally just replace www with old) and voila!

Cant use all the fantastic apps like Reddit Is Fun (golden platinum edition, thanks for asking) but still better than Reddistagram which it appears to have turned in to.

I could have stopped in time, though I was initially assuming he was just changing lanes. I slowed down in anticipation of him changing lanes and just continuing to drive - as you normally expect people to do on a road - not cosplay as a “road closed” sign for no apparent reason. When it was clear he was actually dead stopped I was like yeah, nah, hooroo and went around as that lane actually goes around the corner and down the hill a ways (you can see a van in the distance who’s still on it).

We were already mostly past him when he decided to accelerate in to the side of us. I’m guessing he had a brain snap and was like HOW DARE THEY. His second complaint was that we were going too slow that’s why he went around, which I assume translated in his mind as “losing” the race home if we went past him again.

There’s one benefit to having multiple vehicles and that is that the joy of sharing a dashcam video outweighs the inconvenience caused by having to send one of the spare cars off to the panel beaters for a week. I live to give to you guys.